Welcome back to Between Two Wars! Strap in for what is going to be an exciting ride through the massive cultural, social, economic, and technological shifts that take place after the Great War. We can't guarantee this will always be a positive tale. These changes entail plenty of fear and suffering, and even 'fun' things like the Jazz Age have their darker sides. But that doesn't alter the fact that the interwar is a time of promise where people envision modern futures to replace old pasts. There is everything to play for in this brave new world and a vision of progress all around in politics, culture, food, and more. Let us know what you think of this series in the comments but remember to keep it civil and in line with our rules of conduct: community.timeghost.tv/t/rules-of-conduct/4518
SIDE NOTE: Have you recogniced that INDY is not aging while he is travelling through the time from the front in the suburbs of Moscow 1941 literally back to the post great war russian uprise and battles between white and reds to give us first hand reports and quotes from participants as also historians. Flux Compensator must be working as well as the legend of the "Highlander". He seems to love these time journeys from one decade to the other and then back into the presence, at least for now, but might be also bring us reports form the future, how the COVID19 pandemic had been fought back ...
@@typxxilps It is his Socks , he has special Socks . Everybody comments about his Ties . His Socks help him amaze Us . Thank you for recognizing these Happinings Mr Wolf .
A "Toast" at the end of each episode. Will this be the new conclusion? Like toasted Pizza on a mussolini episode? Or a toasted Cuban sandwich on something southern US? Toasted baguette for a french art episode? A nice refreshingly light hearted episode. Keep marching on!
I wonder if people saw it as a more 'fancy' food back then since it was so new and advanced. Nowadays it has a rep as being cheap compared to other real cheeses, but it must have been a wonder when it first came out.
I'm currently a graduation student of history and I'm making a presentation on the class of patrimony about my home town, a small 30,000 inhabitants city in the state of São Paulo, and I discovered that between 1900 and 1930 we had four different cinemas, one of them actually a theater that was converted in the 40s to a cinema if I'm not mistaken, even though it was deactivated in the late 80s and it is now an evangelical temple it's building is still intact. Thanks for the great content Indy and crew!
What a lovely blast from the (recent) past to hear Indy talk about the Great War again. I'm HYPED for this second season, especially because of the different focus. Keep up the amazing work, gunfingers to the entire team!
Yes please! One of the biggest changes in human history occured throughout this period, as industrial technology was applied to food production. In the space of a single lifetime, we went from people mainly eating whatever was available in their local regions (and often starving when there were crop failures) to having a huge variety of regional and imported foods available year-round. Advances in production, packaging and transportation completely changed how people ate in a very short time.
You know, I studied history in school and later in university, but it was always focused on wars, revolutions and political figures. You know, the "important" stuff. But I think that the things you talk about are no less important, perhaps even more so, since they shape our way of life and how we see the world. I would`ve never known the story behind the cheese and toaster or the movie industry without this series, so thank you so much for that! Much love from Russia!
I was laughing so hard. Even today when the rest of the world is recoiling in horror, there are American boys and girls just like Indy going "hhmm Velveeta!"
This is Astrid’s desk from the other side of the room - the rest is furnishings from the same room, props and the paintings have been added for the shoot - so yes and no.
If you haven't already, please do an entire episode on Tamara de Lempicka, "the Queen of Art Deco painting", whose magnificent art adorns the walls of this set and whose life story is emblematic of the politics of the time and the life of the rich and titled in Europe between the wars - fast cars, hard drugs, sexual freedom and decadence. Please, please, please. You know you want to do it.
I have a jpg of a delightful old ad from the era of appliance "keep up with the Joneses" that has the caption "Don't kill your wife with work, let electricity do it."
I’m so happy to see Between Two Wars come back. It, and the World War II series, are easily the best series on RU-vid, and maybe the internet more broadly.
I work at a film school that still teaches 16mm film. Never in my wildest imagination would I have guessed that the term "Latham Loop" would be mentioned on one of your episodes. Kudos Indy & team!
Oh, how jolly! Levity aside, I think Indy makes some very pertinent points from @2:36 about parallels between the post First World War and current times. Brilliant video. And, oh yes, toast! Mmmm...
@Bruce Bryan Thank you so much for your support. We rely on the TimeGhost Army out there to fund everything we do so you really glad to have you aboard!
This is great. Special props for putting little known demographic changes in context - like the tremendous drop in absolute poverty. I don't say that as in, "we can stop worrying about poverty," but I've consistently noticed that many people have a really outdated picture of what the global development picture is.
In high school (cir. 1958) I had a history teacher who had been in New York at the end of both WWI and WWII. She thought the celebration of the end of WWI was more exuberant than at end of WWII. She said, "At the end of the first war people believed they had fought 'the war to end all wars'. By the end of WWII nobody really believed that anymore." (okay, yeah, quoted from 60-year ago memory,; but, she made quite an impression and that's how I remember what she said.).
The secret to a good grilled cheese sandwich is a little bit of mayo on the inside of the bread and good bit of butter on the outside in which to fry the toast while the cheese melts.
"A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress." - Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History, 1940
Thanks, all of you. I find your channel to be quite informative, to paraphrase Jorge Santayana, "Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it."
Indy Neidell must have REALLY enjoyed making this episode (especially re cheese and toasters)! Of course, as he also points out, there was a darker side to those times as well.
Good first episode to the new season guys. I'm looking forward to the sports and organized crime of the 20's and 30's hopefully being covered this season.
Rather dashing outfit, Indy. Perfect for the time period that was characterized by the Roaring Twenties, and the song, Happy Days are Here Again. Looking forward to season two.
I really thought I wouldn't like this... And yet, I did. The topic of the war, to me is a lot more interesting, but now I've learned one or two things. And the final toast... UFFFF!!! Made my day!!!
Here in Norway we still don't buy pre-sliced bread (not much at least). Instead, to save oneself the trouble of having to slice it oneself you buy it fresh off the shelf and run it through an automatic bread-slicer machine on the spot, then package it yourself and go to pay for it. This is how it works in grocery stores. That way the bread tastes fresher longer (as a sidenote we don't really eat much of what in english is called white bread, instead we prefer what in english is called brown bread, and we're quite good at brown bread!).
Wooohoooooooo here we go again!!! So happy to live this live with you this time ^^ (as opposed to catching up all previous vids like I did for the first season ahah) Thank you for the hard work!
I'm so glad there's a second season! Especially during these times. Thank you for the all hard work once my financial situation is stable I am going to support as soon as possible.
@@TimeGhost I enjoyed it and I wonder if the kind of cheese you talked about isn't also in french school ,also in my the great war recension for truck & tank I talked about both indy and jesse and it's in the truck & tank 81
OMFG!! I love that Ending I was laughing so hard I was crying. Different kind of toast! You all are the Sun shine during these Dark days of 2020. Keep up the awesome work.
Here's the thing, though. Nobody today goes "Well, relative to 1918 things are pretty good." Likewise, nobody in 1918 said "Compared to 1789 things aren't so bad". Unrest occurs within its own context and for its own reasons.
This is just amazing. I'm forever in awe of the passion and effort you guys put forward. To do the research, write the scripts, shoot the material, and to figure out a way to pay for it all and I presume, find profit is just mind-blowing. Add to that, the history is right on point. Indy makes it exciting. I'm very happy with the new direction to Season 2. It's like one of those Pop-History Decade Nostalgia Docs, but about 1918-1939. Thanks to everyone on your team.
You were getting pretty philosophical toward the end there. In the sceme of human existence many of these advances happened only in the past few hundred years yet we are told humans have been here for at least 200,000 years. And look at the speed at which all these things appeared just recently.
